Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I'm informed of this by GenderAnalyzer.com. It's a BETA test of an AI software that tries to determine what gender a page's author is. Here's what they say about themselves:

"We created Genderanalyzer out of curiosity and fun. It uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman. Behind the scene, a text classifier hosted over at uClassify.com has been trained on blogs written by men and women. In our lab it seems to works pretty well, we want to see how it performs on the web! We hope you like it! "

And here's what they say about me:

"We think http://observationsofanerd.blogspot.com is written by a man (74%)."

Thanks, guys!

Hat Tip to Allie for showing me the site. She's a wonderful blogger who I owe everything to, especially this post. She's a man, too, by the way.

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comments:

yes, its true. i'm 76% man. according to the article by the oyster's garter, the gender analyzer seems to have an issue with science blogs by women. just goes to show we need more women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)

Here, here Allie! Although, I might have condemned myself with by talking about sex a lot, too... I mean, how many of my blogs relate to sex in some way? Even the endangered species blog wasn't saved an interesting sexual fact! :)

I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

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Why Do I Blog?

I started this blog mostly because of my friend Allie. She's on her way to a masters in Journalism, and she got assigned to write a blog for one of her classes. When she told me about it, I thought"wow, good idea."

You see, I love to write, but as a scientist very little of my day-to-day writing is interesting or legible to anyone who isn't a scientist. So this lets me write in a way that is actually fun to read - I know, novel.

Anyhow, if you want to why it's called "Observations of a Nerd," read this.